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Bachchan roots for TV

Small screen, big ambitions

Pallab Bhattacharya, New Delhi
For someone who has spent his entire acting career on the big screen, a shift, albeit briefly, to television is a challenge of a different sort. Equally daunting could be the task for the actor to compare the big screen and the small screen. But not for Bollywood veteran Amitabh Bachchan.
Bachchan, who is all set to make his fiction debut on TV with 'Yudh', feels that TV has better reach and it needs to be given more importance.
"I also feel TV is better than films. My knowledge on this is very limited but the little that I know is that the turnover ofTV in India is three times more than cinema. Like approximately, if the turnover of cinema is Rs 10,000 crore, then TV is about Rs 30,000. The reach, effect and the affect of TV has just about started," the 71-year-old actor told reporters in Mumbai on Tuesday.
In a novel way of promoting "Yudh" where he will be seen playing a real estate baron, Bachchan rang the bell at the Bombay Stock Exchange on Tuesday. In fact, the actor is actively involved in its marketing
along with the producer.
The megastar seemed surprised that a whopping 300 million people watch TV. There are 800 TV channels in this country, there are 300 other applications lying with the Government of India wanting licenses to operate, he said which he thinks is an "incredible" number.
Bachchan feels TV needs to be given more weightage. "It (TV) needs to be given more importance, looked at more seriously. 1 understand content is the king on TV and whoever has the best content is going to succeed. When you have 800 channels, each of them competing, it gives us impetus to do our best and do something different," according to him.
Asked if he thinks TV is a safer proposition than films, he said
"Nothing is safe in this world when you are doing creativity. Any kind of art...how do you know the result until you put it out. We take precautions, there are times
when you succeed and fail as well. This is a gamble that you have to take when you are in this field of art."
"I don't think there is a formula (for success) as the greatest of directors and production houses all over the world have seen failure. It is uncertain as it deals with emotions and people's reaction. We all take risk like any other
business we put it across and hope people like it," Bachchan said.
Does a shift from cinema to TV mean a compromise in Bachchan's stature as an actor?
"1 don't think about all this. For us, what matters is audience reaction. I never thought if I will become big or small by coming on IV, for me doing work matters. I want to contribute in all areas in this field," pat came the reply from Bachchan.
Directed by acclaimed director Anurag Kashyap ("Udaan", "The Lunchbox"), the series features other high-rated actors Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Kay Kay Menon.